Director, Engineering AI

Aquinas Consulting is currently looking to fill a hybrid/remote Director of AI Engineering job in Bethesda, MD with a key client in the Hospitality Space. If you have eight or more years of software engineering experience and a strong background in AI/ML applications and enterprise integrations, this CONTRACT opportunity could be a great fit for you. In this role, you will serve as the AI Technology Lead for agile teams within a business vertical, leading and advising those teams while driving high-priority use cases from discovery through production. You will design and build AI agents, multi-agent workflows, and enterprise integrations across some of the most complex and high-visibility engagements in the AI program.

Director, AI Engineering Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and advise agile teams as the AI Technology Lead, operating concurrently across Build, Consult, Advise, and Monitor engagement modes
• Design and build AI agents, multi-agent workflows, and enterprise integrations using vendor SDKs including AWS, Watsonx, Writer, and Copilot Studio
• Coordinate with vendor engineering teams on joint delivery, providing architectural direction and quality oversight
• Produce governance artifacts and make architectural decisions that set precedent across the broader AI program
• Build comprehensive handoff packages including runbooks, monitoring documentation, and reference architectures to enable long-term ownership by business partners
• Mentor engineers and contribute proven patterns, SDKs, and reference architectures to the shared pattern library after each Build cycle

Qualifications:

• Eight plus years of software engineering experience with three or more years in AI/ML applications, enterprise integrations, or platform engineering; or six plus years with a Master's degree
• Deep proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript writing production-quality code
• Hands-on experience with LLM application development including agent building, prompt engineering, and AI workflow automation
• Experience designing REST API integrations and producing technical and architectural documentation in enterprise environments
• Proficiency using AI-powered coding assistants such as Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code as everyday development tools
• Experience with two or more enterprise AI platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP/Vertex AI, Watsonx, or Copilot Studio preferred
• Hands-on experience building production-grade RAG pipelines and multi-agent orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or CrewAI preferred

If you are interested in this hybrid/remote Director of AI Engineering job in Bethesda, MD, please apply now to be connected with a member of our team.

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Aquinas Consulting is a woman and minority owned company headquartered in Milford, CT that provides Engineering, Information Technology (IT), and Manufacturing staffing solutions throughout the US. We take pride in 20 years of service to our clients, our hiring managers, our consultants, and our local community.  Aquinas is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and committed to considering all qualified applications without regard to race, genetic information, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. www.aquinasconsulting.com